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EP 178 Anil Seth on A New Science of Consciousness

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The Difference Between Consciousness and Intelligence

I see so many people get this confused, is the difference between consciousness and intelligence. And I think the reason they often get conflated is because of some residual human exceptionalism. If something is sufficiently smart, we might be tempted to say, it's also conscious. But conceptually the two things are completely different. You don't have to be smart to suffer.

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